The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become far too complex for untrained minds to wrap themselves around. Some toolkits aim to create entirely new ways of envisioning and creating projects that appeal to younger minds, such as games and animations, while others aim to recreate the "basic"-ness of BASIC in a modern language and environment.
Left 4k Dead was made by Markus Persson, for the 2009 Java 4k Competition. The entire game is less than 4kb. The game is inspired by Left 4 Dead by Valve Software.
The game was written for a contest where developers submit applications written in under 4K using Java. Pretty amazing what people can come with to fit in 4K.
Get message that Google Desktop has stopped working and searching the Temp folder I find Gigs of Zip files that are being left behind (in C:\ Users/[username]\AppData\Local\Temp) by some GD function (indexing not working?)
Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved as AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F) or raw elementary stream (H.264/AVC). The audio is saved as MP3, AAC (with ADTS headers), or WAV (PCM).
A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.
Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center).
XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.
Microsoft said research confirmed that the bug is within all its browsers, including those it currently supports -- IE5.01, IE6 and IE7 -- as well as IE8 Beta 2, a preview version that the company doesn't support through normal channels.
Users running any of those browsers on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 or Server 2008 are at risk, Microsoft said.
It adds IE6 and IE8 Beta 2 to the list, recommends disabling .dll to stay safe
Over the past couple of years, we've made an effort to bring specialized content like Patents, News Archives and the LIFE Photo Archive online. Today, that effort continues--we're beginning to add magazines to the Google Book Search index, so that when you search on Google Book Search, you'll be searching across the full text of both books and an ever-growing number of magazines, which will appear tagged with the keyword "Magazine" in search results.
Not the newest magazines around but it a step the direction of everything indexed by Google.
Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
I still use Winamp as my music player but and getting closer to dropping it. It used to be a very good, low resource music player but has gotten bloated over the years. Songbird might be a good option, trying it now.
EmEditor Text Editor is a lightweight, yet extendable, easy-to-use text editor for Windows. EmEditor is very customizable, and it supports Unicode and powerful macros. EmEditor now supports very large files - up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines! EmEditor is certified for Windows Vista! The x64 Edition is also available! The portable version is also available for USB drive setup!
In this version (8.0) there are many new features including a Large File Controller, Vertical Selection Editing, Binary Editing, Optimized Search and Replace, improved Projects Plug-in, and many more!
emEditor has got to be one of the best text editors I have come across. So much so that it is my main application for writing web development code (HTML, CSS and PHP).
So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!)… so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? Sounds familiar? Yes… we’ve all been there before!
I have used What the Font many times and its a really neat tool that has saved me from lost fonts before. The only one in the list that does the work for you is What The Font. You can upload an image of the font and it attempts to identify it automatically - worked great for Veign's logo.
Opera released an alpha version of Opera 10 today, a first step toward the next major release of the popular cross-platform web browser. First and foremost, Opera 10 is looking to offer stiff competition with the blazing rendering engines in the upcoming Firefox release (Tracemonkey) and Google Chrome (V8) with an update to its rendering engine, Presto—which Opera claims offers a 30% speed boost over the previous version of the engine. But that's not all.
DreamSpark: DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.
Microsoft Art Collection: The Microsoft Art Collection's mission is to create an inspiring work environment that fosters creativity and innovation.
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CodePlex (Open Source hosting): CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community.
Microsoft Automotive: Automotive industry solutions are powered by a winning combination of innovative Microsoft technology and partner experience and knowledge.
Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Finds error levels from jpg compression in images with Error Level Analyser. Basically it will allow you to see where in images alterations have been made against what was actually photographed.
ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and userfriendly JavaScript image gallery which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. This means you need the author's permission to use ImageFlow on commercial websites.
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application.
ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.
It can burn Audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV.
You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.
